"For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy."

-- Azar Nafisi

#Struggle Quotes #Islamic Quotes #Iran Quotes

“Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one but they think each others stink.”
“Normally what I do is I'll record something that I really like which will be part of a song or an idea. I kind of just record things and then I'm done with them. It takes discipline to actually carve out a song.”
“A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”
“When you're more mature, you do start telling the truth, in odd situations. 'I'm sorry, I've broken a glass here. Is that expensive? I'll pay for it. I'm sorry.' And you do that so that people in the room might go, 'What a strong personality that person has. I like to have sex with people with strong personalities.'”
“I guess I'm just in the flow and riding the wave,”
“Ending AIDS is an opportunity for this generation. We should not miss this opportunity”
“The essence of peace is to merge two opposites. Therefore your notions should not scare you if you see another, who absolutely opposes you, and you presume that there is no chance for peace between you two. On the same token when you see two individuals who are exactly two opposites, never say it would be impossible for them to reconcile. On the contrary, and this is the perfection of peace to make it between two opposites.”
“Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them sometimes.”

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